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The Licensing Act 2003 establishes a regime for the granting of personal licences to individuals to supply, or to authorise the supply of alcohol. The personal licence is separate from the licence which authorises a premises to be used for the supply of alcohol.

To qualify for a personal licence the applicant must fulfil the following criteria:

the applicant must be aged 18 or over

no personal licence held by the applicant should have been forfeited within the period of five years before making the application

the applicant must possess an accredited licensing qualification, or is a person of prescribed description

the applicant must not have been convicted of any relevant or foreign offence

We will update the list of relevant offences in the Licensing Act 2003 to include attempting to commit, and conspiracy to commit, existing relevant offences and failure by drivers to co-operate with a preliminary test in relation to alcohol, impairment or drugs.